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Johanna Margaretha van Hoeting
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BIOGRAPHY: She was the daughter of "President" Gerrit Jacobuss van Niekerrk of the Boer Republic Stelland, near Vryburg, South Africa
"(General: She was the second daughter of “President” Gerrit Jacobus van Niekerk (06.07.1849 - 23.10.1896) of The Boer-Republic Stellaland x Hester Cecelia Roos of Stellenbosch. Gerrit Jacobus lived next door to President Paul Kruger, and during his lifetime he was chief commissioner of police of the Zuid-Afrikaanse Republiek [ZAR]. He died as a result of severe high blood pressure. To alleviate the high blood pressure, leeches were used on him. His kidneys probably failed as a result of the high blood pressure, but his death notice only refers to a kidney disease. Read my “Gedenkboek van M.J. de Jager (1872 - 1939) - Boerekryger, Staatsartilleris en Militêr”.)
BIOGRAPHY: He was President of the Boer Republic, Stellaland, near Vryburg South Africa
BIRTH: Born before marriage of parents
PieterChristiaan De Jager Prog
BIOGRAPHY: Arrived South Africa 1695
BIOGRAPHY: MY EXTENDED DE JAGER GENEALOGICAL REGISTER
(As a matter of interest) Although the name and date of birth of one Pieter Christiaan de Jager *1640 in the Netherlands points to him being possibly our progenitor, there is no evidence for this. According to research done in the Netherlands there is a possibility that his father might have been Andries de Jager, but again there is no certainty about this at present. It is always difficult to obtain information about our overseas ancestors. Any assistance in this matter will be much appreciated.
In 1652 Jan van Riebeeck brought a “chief surgeon” to the Cape. He was Adriaan de Jager, whilst the “junior surgeon” was Cornelis Maijarp/Majarp. It must be stressed that this Adriaan was not the progenitor of the de Jagers in South Africa. (Source: Pieter de Jager, Ottosdal, South-Africa.)
The progenitor: Pieter Christiaan de Jager ca.1671, from Zutphen, in the Province [of] Gelderland, the Netherlands. Later burgher of Drakenstein.
On 19.02.1696 he married Hermina Karels(e) in Cape Town.. She gave birth to eight children, but died in 1713 or 1714. The more probable date is 1713, because Pieter Christiaan was married again on 15.07.1714 to Adriaanje Janz, also spelt Adriana Jans(e). (There is also some reference to Adriana Gerritsdaughter, but this was merely usage by the Dutch to associate a child with the father’s name in this way). Pieter Christiaan died in 1715 and there is no evidence of descendants with Adriana. Adriana then married Joachim Greef, widower of Johanna de Vries.
Children: 1. Andries Pieter ~1695 (Burgher of Drakenstein)
2. 2. 2. Antonetta *1696. baptised 30.09.1696. Died 1696. (The name Antonetta/Antoinetta/Antoinette is a common name among all later de Jagers. (The later Matthys Gottlieb - sometimes spelt Godlieb - born on 21.10.1791, married an Antonetta Elizabeth Weber - also spelt Weeber- gave further momentum to the name.)
3. 3. 3. Carel de Jager 1696. baptised on 24.05.1699. He married Hester Erasmus ca. 1703 on 08.04.1725. Carel was Hester’s second husband, but she probably died shortly after their marriage. One can only wonder whether her death might be attributed to her first pregnancy? He then married Magdalena Malherbe *ca. 1705, ~ 28.06.1705 on 29.09.1726 (daughter of Gideon Malherbe *1663 in France and died 1723 at the Cape x Maria Grillon *1667 in France). Eight children would be born of this marriage, among whom Pieter Christiaan de Jager ~20.07.1727 x 16.10.1783 Margaretha Strydom ~22.02.1750, died 1772/3, daughter of. Johannes Strydom ~04.04.1717 and died 28.09.1759 (Agter Cogmanskloof) x 13.09.1744 Maria Nortje ~28.05.1724, died before 1769. As we shall see later, Margaretha Strydom then married Christiaan de Jager, ~18.01.1742, son of Andries Pieter de Jager x Elizabeth Potgieter. Carel died in 1765 at Swellendam.
4. 4. 4. Johannes *1701. Baptised on 23.10.1701. Died unmarried.
5. 5. 5. Louis *1703. Baptised on 13.08.1703. Died unmarried.
6. 6. 6. Anna Margaretha *1706. Baptised on 21.03.1706. Died unmarried. (The later Petrus Jacobus de Jager, born 28.02.1839 would coincidentally marry an Anna Margaretha Aspeling. Later family names were thus sometimes strengthened from both paternal and maternal sides.)
7. 7. 7. Christiaan *1709. Baptised on 04.08.1709. He married Elizabeth du Preez on 29.12.1743 (The common name Elizabeth, in combination with other names, would later often be found among the de Jager families. ~ also among the relatives by marriage). Christiaan and Elizabeth du Preez had only one daughter. Christiaan died at Stellenbosch 12.02.1746.
8. 8. 8. Lourens *1711, baptised on ~21.11.1717. One wonders why he was only baptised six years later? He married Maria Elizabeth Strydom ~25.01.1722 (died 1778) on 16.11.1738. Between 1740 en 1765 they had eight sons and one daughter. Maria Elizabeth Strydom was the daughter of Matthys Strydom ~04.06.1690 (Cape) and died 1737 x 14.06.1711 Elizabeth (Isabeau) Nortje *1690 and died 1772, daughter.of. Daniel Nortier and Maria Vitout, of Calais. Interesting that die name Matthys, as we shall see, was later commonly found among the de Jagers.
Andries Pieter de Jager, ~1695 (burgher of Drakenstein) x 29.09.1726 Elizabeth Potgieter ~31.12.1709.
(Elizabeth Potgieter’s ancestors:
(a) Louis of Bengal (India) x Black female slave from Guinea, North Africa [West Africa].BIOGRAPHY: Descendant: Elizabeth of the Cape.
(b) (b) (b) Elizabeth of the Cape (also named Lijsbeth Sanders) x Johann Herbst of Bremen, Germany.BIOGRAPHY: Descendant: Clara Herbst. (In order for her to be accepted by the Cape society, Johann Herbst had Clara, who was free-born, baptised in church by order of the VOC [Dutch East India Company]).
(c) (c) (c) Clara Herbst, ~ca 1695 x 24.07.1712 Johannes Potgieter *1674. (Clara was Potgieter’s first wife.)
BIOGRAPHY: Descendant: Elizabeth Potgieter, ~1709).
Children: 1. Hermina. Baptised 10.08.1727.
2. Clara . Baptised 23.01.1729 x Johannes Adrianus de Nicker [Necker]. Their son, Adriaan, was baptised on the same day (23.01.1729).
3. 3. 3. Pieter ~02.06.1731. Burgher of Swellendam x 12.05.1771 Elsie Potgieter ~07.09.1749
Children: (a) Elsie ~15.08.1773 x C.J. Brits.
(b) Martha Susanna ~19.03.1775
(c) Elizabeth Hermina de Jager (~19.03.1775 - 1800) x 16.10.1796 Simon August Frederich Streicher *1764. They had three children:
(i) Pieter Diederik Emilius ~04.08.1797
(ii) Frederica Elizabeth ~ 07.10.1798
(iii) Elizabeth Hermina ~06.04.1800
(Although the Streichers spread throughout the country, there are still several Streicher families living in the vicinity of Swellendam.)
(d) Andries ~06.10.1776
(e) (e) (e) Hermanus Hendrik ~25.12.1778, burgher of Swellendam x 22.11.1801 Elizabeth Catharina Potgieter
Children: (i) Anna Christina ~02.10.1803
(ii) Pieter Christiaan ~27.09.1807
(iii) Elsie Frederica ~24.12.1810
(iv) Johannes ~16.05.1813
(v) (v) (v) Hermanus Hendrik ~21.04.1815
(vi) Hester Magdalena ~06.09.1818
(vii) Elsie Catharina ~12.08.1821
(f) (f) (f) Pieter Christiaan ~25.03.1781
(g) (g) (g) Johannes Evert ~08.12.1782 x April 1810 Helena Dorothea Bester
(h) (h) (h) Hester Magdalena ~10.02.1786 x Jan Hermanus Cronjé
4. Jan Hermanus ~19.04.1733
5. Maria Catharina ~02.10.1734 x 08.04.1762 Roelof van Wyk
6. Andries Christoffel ~05.08.1736
7. Hester Frederika ~19.10.1738
8. Frederik ~31.01.1740. Burgher of Swellendam x 14.02.1768 Maria Strydom ~16.07.1752
9. Christiaan ~18.01.1742, son of Andries Pieter de Jager and Elizabeth Potgieter x 25.02.1770 Margaretha Strydom ~22.02.1750 (widow of Pieter Christiaan de Jager ~20.07.1727, son of Carel de Jager x Magdalena Malherbe) xx 14.02.1773 Jacoba Elizabeth du Preez ~28.03.1751 (widow of Tobias van Schalkwyk ~30.09.1742).
(As a matter of interest): Christiaan, burgher of Stellenbosch xx Jacoba Elizabeth du Preez. They had 8 children: 1. Andreas Johannes, ~08.10.1774, burgher of Swellendam x Jacoba Catharina Oosthuysen on 01.11.1801. 2. Christiaan Jacobus, ~19.11.1775, burgher of Swellendam x Maria Elizabeth Botha, ~29.09.1782. 3. Frederik Josephus, ~24.05.1778 (died 1848), burgher of Swellendam x Hermina de Jager *20.11.1803. 4. Jacobus Hercules, ~23.04.1780, burgher of Swellendam x Maria Elizabeth Fourie *11.11.1804. 5. Lodewyk Theodorus, ~05.10.1783 x Maria Catharina Rog. 6. Jacoba Elizabeth, ~09.04.1786 x S. Odendaal. 7. Isabella Hermina, ~12.04.1789 x Casparus Bresler. 8. Pieter Benjamin, ~06.05.1792 and died 1826, burgher of Swellendam x Cecelia Maria le Roux on 05.05.1816).
10. Elizabeth, ~10.11.1743 x J. van Wyk
11. Lodewyk, ~16.10.1745, burgher of Swellendam x Susanna Maria Cronje on 19.07.1772
12. 12. 12. Andries, ~13.05.1748
13. 13. 13. Petrus, ~01.02.1750
14. 14. 14. Johannes, ~26.11.1752
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Frederik de Jager, ~31.01.1740 (burgher of Swellendam) x 14.02.1768 Maria Strydom ~16.07.1752, a sister of Margaretha Strydom ~22.02.1750, died 1772/3. It is once again interesting that the sisters Margaretha and Maria had a brother
named Matthys, a name that later often appeared among the later de Jagers in my genealogy. (Their brother, Matthys Strydom, ~30.09.1747 married on 20.12.1767 Johanna Susanna Cordier ~14.02.1751, daughter of. Gideon Cordier and Maria Nortje.)
Children: 1. Elizabeth ~01.10.1769 x Adriaan van Wyk ~14.09.1766
2. Andries ~09.02.1772
3. Johannes Petrus ~12.02.1775 (possibly died when still a child)
4. 4. 4. Frederik Johannes ~26.01.1777 x 26.09.1802 Christina Johanna Potgieter ~23.06.1787
Children: (i) Frederik Johannes *03.05.1804 and ~10.06.1804 (He moved from De Hoop, Bredasdorp, to the farm, Loskop in the Harrismith district. Loskop is still in the possession of Willem de Jager, descendant of Jacobus Johannes de Jager.) x Johanna Sophia Maria van Rensburg
(ii) Johannes Jurgen ~24.07.1807 (moved to George)
(iii) (iii) (iii) Anna Christina ~14.03.1809
(iv) (iv) (iv) Matthysina Germina Clasina ~26.04.1811 (What a “punishment” the name Matthys became!)
(v) (v) (v) Gerrit Andries ~07.07.1813
(vi) (vi) (vi) Marthinus Jacobus ~19.09.1819
5. Maria Margaretha ~21.02.1779 x 20.10.1793 Mattheus van Tonder ~16.02.1772
6. Johannes Petrus ~23.12.1781. Died 17.04.1856 x Swellendam 07.04.1805 Martha Helena Cronjé ~21.04.1856 (Stephanus -d)
7. Hermina ~09.05.1784 x Francois Johannes Cronjé ~24.09.1780 (brother of Martha Helena Cronjé; see 6 above)
8. Clara Johanna ~06.05.1787 x Matrimonial Court, Cape Town 13.01.1805 Johannes [Hans] Jurgens Potgieter ~26.09.1784, widower of Anna Susanna Scheepers
9. Christiaan Jacobs [Jacobus] ~01.10.1789
10. Matthys Gottlieb *21.10.1791 at Swellendam, Durbanville ~15.04.1792. He was a wagon maker at Beaufort West in 1838 at the time of the Great Trek and died at Beaufort West on 21.05.1882. He also farmed on Kuilspoort and Avondale outside of Beaufort West x Antoinette [Annetta] Elizabeth Weber ~24.06.1798
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Matthys Gottlieb. Born Swellendam 21.10.1791. Died Beaufort-West 21.05.1882 x Antoinetta Elizabeth Weber ~24.06.1798.
(She was the daughter of Johan Valentijn Weber, ~1774 and died 01.07.1804 x Johanna Magdalena Catharina Bredenkamp, baptised 06.12.1778. Johan Valentijn Weber and Johanna MC Bredenkamp married on 01.06.1794 in Cape Town. Johan Valentijn Weber was the son of Wihan Weber, of Germany).
Children: 1. Johanna Catharina Magdalena, *25.01.1818, ~ Paarl 27.04.1818 x
Beaufort West, Marthinus Johannes Weber
2. 2. 2. Maria Elizabeth, *04.09.1819 x John Henry Elliot, *England 26.12.1815
3. 3. 3. Anthoinette Elizabeth, *07.04.1821, ~ Cape Town on 10.08.1821
4. 4. 4. Frederick Johannes Wilhelm, *09.02.1823, ~ Cape Town15.08.1823
5. 5. 5. Johan Hendrik Valentijn, *30.06.1824, ~ Paarl 22.08.1824. Died in Kimberley on 10.11.1902 x Maria Johanna du Plessis, died at Carnarvon 11.12.1875 (daughter of Pieter Willem du Plessis) xx Paarl 1877 to Francina Jeanette de Villiers, daughter of Daniel Johannes de Villiers
6. 6. 6. Carl Pieter Erasmus *18.04.1826, ~ Paarl on 17.09.1826
7. 7. 7. Hendrik Johannes *13.11.1827, ~ Durbanville on 02.12.1827. Died 21.04.1894. Farmed on Kuilspoort, Beaufort West. x Johanna Gustava Aspeling *18.08.1836, ~23.10.1836. Married at George 07.11.1864. Her father was Johan Gustav Aspeling, hence her name. Children: (i) Matthys Gustav *ca. 1865, died ca 1964 (ii) Maria Carolina, unmarried, died Cape Town (iii) Johan Louis (iv) Antoinette Elizabeth (Nettie), unmarried, died Cape Town (v) Hendrik Jacobus (Henry), died South West Africa in 1953 (vi) George Aspeling (vii) Clarens *20.12.1877, died 22.10.1971, attorney at Colesberg x Ella Justina Scholtz, *Calvinia 02.02.1883, died 25.12.1905. One child: Gustaf *11.08.1905, died 19.12.1905 xx Elizabeth (Bettie) Wessels on 29.04.1908. She died on 24.03.1943. One child: Clarence *30.10.1912, died 11.12.1964 x Daphné Mansard Wienand *28.04.1911. Two children: Clarence George *27.07.1938 x Nanette Patricia Eaton, and Julian *17.08.1948 x 17.04.1949 Elizabeth Jean Mitchell *13.10.1949.
8. 8. 8. Engela Frederika *02.12.1829, ~ Durbanville on 17.01.1830 x A.S. Grimbeek.
9. 9. 9. Matthys Michael Andries *18.08.1831, ~ Durbanville 16.10.1831.
10. 10. 10. Hermina Catharina Hendrina *29.07.1833, ~ Durbanville 15.09.1833 x Beaufort West 16.09.1856 to Henry Jackson, son of Robert Jackson.
11. 11. 11. Carolina Johanna *15.07.1836. Died young.
12. 12. 12. Carel Pieter Johannes *05.12.1838, ~ Beaufort West 06.01.1839.
13. 13. 13. Petrus Jacobus (28.02.1841 - ca 09.07.1906) x George 25.11.1863 Anna Margaretha Aspeling *28.08.1838. Baptised at George 30.09.1838.
(The two De Jager brothers - refer to numbers 5 and 11 above - therefore married the Aspeling sisters. The two sisters’ father was Johan Gustav Aspeling (1793 - 01.08.1871), magistrate at George from 12.03.1847. He was baptised in 1793, married Tulbagh on 10.01.1824 Maria Carolina Winterbach *ca. 07.03.1808 and died at Beaufort West on 03.10.1869. She was the daughter of Johan [Jan] Carel Winterbach, ~11.03.1734, died 20.08.1809 x Dorothea Elizabeth Theron.
Johan [Jan] Carel Winterbach was the son of Johann Dietrich Winterbach and Anna Margaretha Meulen. Thus we can see how the name, Anna Margaretha, had its origin in the wife of Petrus Jacobus de Jager.
Johan Gustav died in York Street, George, but the location of his grave “on a hill” at Mossel Bay could not be determined by Andrew Aspeling and his wife, Elize, in 2003.
Much of this information I obtained from Andrew Robert Aspeling *07.07.1927, at George. Coindicentally, he too is a retired magistrate and lives in a short cul de sac, 8 Kreefslot , George East.
E-mail adress: ara@worldonline.co.za <mailto:ara@worldonline.co.za> Other valuable information about the Aspelings may be obtained from Roger Lewis Aspeling, Titusville, www.aspeling.com <http://www.aspeling.com/> or from Stella Sutherland, in Australia, through stellasutherland@hotmail.com <mailto:stellasutherland@hotmail.com> Also from Roger Lewis Aspeling’s sister Molly, through mollyb@intekom.co.za <mailto:mollyb@intekom.co.za> in Newton Park, Port Elizabeth - A.P. Smit, Oktober 2003)
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Petrus Jacobus de Jager *28.02.1841 and baptised 28.03.1841 in the Dutch Reformed Church Beaufort West. Married on 25.11.1863. Died ca.09.07.1906 in Sunnyside, Pretoria.
(As a matter of interest: In his “God’s Acre - Church Street Cemetery” T.E. (Tom) Andrews states the date of birth of Petrus Jacobus as 28.02.1839 but this is impossible, as his older brother, Carl Pieter Johannes, was born three months earlier on 05.12.1838. The date of birth, 28.02.1841, was supplied to me by the archives of the Dutch Reformed Church in Cape Town and must be considered as being correct - so, too, the date of his baptism, 28.03.1841.)
In early July 2003, I, my wife and a family member went in search of his grave in the Church Street cemetery in Pretoria. We were at the point of giving up and were indeed on our way to the car, when quite by coincidence I looked over my shoulder at a single grave about thirty metres away. A small voice said to me: “Please won’t you just look at that one grave too.” I sent the women off to the car and turned back to inspect this grave. The tombstone was lying flat on the ground, but I could hardly believe my eyes, for this was the tombstone that we had been looking for for hours! Could this have been a coincidence? No, I don’t think so!
The next day I and some assistants replaced the tombstone on its base and I believe that it will remain in place for many years to come. (The dates do correspond with the dates cited by T.E. Andrews, but as I said before, they cannot be considered accurate.)
Further background: Petrus Jacobus was a law agent at Beaufort West and afterwards on die Diamond Fields. He was buried in Grave 13, Row B, in the German Block D of the Church Street West cemetery, Pretoria, - not far from the corner closest to the Kruger House. Petrus Jacobus was a law agent at Beaufort West, went to the Diamond Fields after his insolvency in 1881. Three of his daughters were to die there of the virulent [“strafheersende”] camp fever.
According to tradition Petrus Jacobus signed as a guarantor for one of his brothers and lost everything. Johan Gustav Aspeling (his father-in-law and magistrate of George) also attended his liquidation auction, where he bought three portraits and a pair of boots among other things.
Petrus Jacobus’ wife was Anna Margaretha Aspeling, *28.08.1838, ~30.09.1838. She died on 20.06.1919 and was buried the very next day, on 21.06.1919, in the same grave as her late husband. Since there were no modern refrigeration facilities in earlier times, all burials took place as soon as feasible. Read more about this Petrus Jacobus de Jager in the “Gedenkboek van M.J. de Jager….(1872-1939)…,” by Alwyn P. Smit - grandson).
Children: 1. Maria (Miemie) Carolina (13.10.1864 - 06.04.1964) - She was given her grandmother Winterbach’s Christian names x Jacob Coenraad Theron (they had a shop at Ermelo and are buried there).
2. 2. 2. Unkown (probably died without being named after premature birth).
3. 3. 3. Antoinette Elizabeth (05.01.1866 - 1881). Died on the Diamond Fields of virulent camp fever. Petrus Jacobus was a law agent there.
4. 4. 4. Margaretha Catharina (26.08.1867 - 1881). Also died of camp fever.
5. 5. 5. Henrietta Johanna (15.04.1869 - 1881). Died of camp fever.
6. 6. 6. Matthys Johan (23.01.1872 - 02.10.1939). Read the Gedenkboek van M.J. de Jager (1872 -1939); Boerekryger, Staatsartilleris en Militêr” by Alwyn P. Smit (grandson).
7. 7. 7. Petrus Jacobus (03.04.1874 - 13.01.1898). Died unmarried.
8. 8. 8. Agathe [Agnes?] Georgina (13.07.1875 - 24.10.1918).
9. 9. 9. Johan Gustav (14.09.1877 - 12.12.1960) x Gerlofke de Rapper. It is probably her respected family’s Pretoria grave, which can be found in the Church Street cemetery. It looks like an obelisk.
10. 10. 10. Ellen Elizabeth *15.08.1879. Died 19.07.1966. She is buried at Ermelo.
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Matthys Johan de Jager *23.01.1872 x Martha Maria van Niekerk (09.04.1873 - 17.09.1953). Married on 29.09.1897. Martha Maria died in room 19 of the Roman Catholic Hospital in Windhoek. Coincidentally, this is the same number as that of her corrugated iron house in Merebank Camp, outside Durban, in which she was held captive during the Anglo Boer War. (The dates on the tombstone are unfortunately incorrect - Old cemetery, Windhoek, Namibia.)
(General: She was the second daughter of “President” Gerrit Jacobus van Niekerk (06.07.1849 - 23.10.1896) of The Boer-Republic Stellaland x Hester Cecelia Roos of Stellenbosch. Gerrit Jacobus lived next door to President Paul Kruger, and during his lifetime he was chief commissioner of police of the Zuid-Afrikaanse Republiek [ZAR]. He died as a result of severe high blood pressure. To alleviate the high blood pressure, leeches were used on him. His kidneys probably failed as a result of the high blood pressure, but his death notice only refers to a kidney disease. Read my “Gedenkboek van M.J. de Jager (1872 - 1939) - Boerekryger, Staatsartilleris en Militêr”.)
Children: 1. Hester Cecelia (03.06.1898 - ca.1958) x Christopher Behm.
2. 2. 2. Petrus Jacobus (06.03.1900 - 06.12.1957) x Martha Wilhelmina Nel (11.06.1923 - 31.10.1987) of Keetmanshoop. (Petrus was known as Piet. Both he and his older sister, Hester, were in the Merebank Camp during the Anglo-Boer War. He was an accomplished pianist. He died of a heart attack in a doctor’s surgery in Windhoek. He also appeared on the cover of one of Helm Joost’s humorous books, playing the piano.)
One child: Frieda *17.04.1937 x Bernard Christian du Plessis *17.04.1932.
Children: (a) Bernice *12.05.1966 (unmarried)
(b) Eugene Christiaan *14.08.1971 x Tanya Mandy *26.12.1970.
One child: Christian du Plessis *2002.
3. 3. 3. Unknown. Died unbaptised as a small baby.
4. 4. 4. Matthys Johan (06.05.1904 - 30.09.1973) - See 5 for twin brother. x Elizabeth Catharina (Bettie) Engelbrecht (13.04.1906 - 14.04.1992).
5. 5. 5. Gerrit Jacobus Niekerk ( 06.05.1904 - 24.08.1980) x Ellen Johanna (Dolly) Strauss (02.04.1909 - 09.10.1966).
One child: Martha Maria (Maxie) (01.01.1935 -13.01.1991) x Johannes (Hannes) Theodorus Ferreira *07.01.1934 of Uitenhage. Children: (a) Ignatius Wilhelm (Wim) Ferreira *12.11.1960 x Lolita Mardré Victor *02.08.1964.
Children: (i) Johannes Theodorus (Theo) *28.02.1991.
(ii) Mardré Cornelia *17.12.1994.
(b) (b) (b) Gerrit Jacobus Niekerk Ferreira *11.03.1963.
(c) (c) (c) Erica Ellen Ferreira *16.03.1966 x Robert Southy.
6. 6. 6. Anna Margaretha Aspeling (06.06.1906 - 17.05.1940). She was known as Dolly and this name appears on her tombstone in the old Windhoek cemetery. She died just eight months after her marriage x Johannes Jooste (no dates). His only sister was Maria Linde (JOOSTE) *16.11.1905, and died at Riversdal[e] on 10.06.1989.
7. 7. 7. Johan Gustav (10.01.1909 - 13.03.1973) x Dorethea Magdalena de Villiers.
Children: (a) Matthys Johan (17.08.1943 - 08.10.1989) x Denise Winifred Thornley *30.05.1944.
Children: (1) Sheryl *25.12.1965 x Gary Medhurst.
(2) Danette *30.11.1967 x Trevor Torr.
(b) Johan Gustav (23.01.1937 - 15.11.2001) x Thyra Ilse Horsthemke *01.05.1944 at Brandenburg, East Germany. (Her father left South Africa to fight under Rommel against the Allied Forces in North Africa. He therefore fought against her future father-in-law, Johan Gustav de Jager *1909! After the National Party came to power in 1948, they were allowed (as were many other Germans) to return to South Africa in 1950. As a result of this many Germans, especially in the former South West Africa, voted for the National Party.)
One child: Johan *13.06.1974.
(c) De Villiers [first name].
8. Marguerite Irene de Jager *06.07.1917 x 26.07.1943 Alwyn Petrus Smit (18.10.1907 - 08.01.1965). These are my parents. He came from the farm Uitsig, Victoria West. Later he bought Seeis, Windhoek district, in the former South West Africa. (His father was Alwyn Petrus Smit (27.08.1876 - 25.08.1956) of Robertson. His mother was Johanna Gertruida de Wet (28.01.1877 - 11.04.1946) of the farm, Goudini, Caledon).
One child: Alwyn Petrus Smit *05.06.1948 (yours truly) x Catharina Maria (Marina) Cillié *18.04.1949, married on 31.07.1971 in the Toringkerk, Paarl -as it behoves a good Huguenot!
Children: (1) Marguerite Irene (Alrina) Smit *03.07.1973 in Fort Beaufort Hospital. Baptised in Dutch Reformed Grey Church, Balfour, Cape Province, by the Rev. C.F.S. le Roux x Louis Cornelius Jordaan *29.04.1975. Married on 15.04.2000 at Bredasdorp, and lives on the farm Welgegund, Protem.
(2) (2) (2) Alwyn Petrus Smit *06.09.1975 in Paarl Hospital. Baptised in Courtrai congregation, Paarl by the Rev. Burger x Karin Blom *10.03.1975. She is from Middelburg, Cape Province. Marriage date: 10.04.1999. Married in the well-known little old church at Struisbaai.
(3) (3) (3) Johanna Susanna (Susan) Smit *13.01.1981 in the Karl Bremer Hospital, Bellville.
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Matthys Johan (06.05.1904 - 30.09.1973) x Elizabeth (Bettie) Catharina Engelbrecht (13.04.1905 - 14.04.1992) of Kakamas.
Children : 1. Matthys Johan (21.07.1931 - 29.08.2001).
2. 2. 2. Petrus Johannes Jacobus *21.11.1935 x Stella Elizabeth Hegers *11.06.1938. Married on 20.05.1961 in Dutch Reformed Mother Congregation at the Strand.
(Petrus Johannes Jacobus (Pieter) became, like his brother, Thys, an aircraft technician at Jan Smuts [Airport] and later transferred to D.F. Malan Airport in Cape Town. He retired in 2000 and lives in the Strand. Stella is the daughter of Norman John Hegers (29.08.1905 - 18.10.1975) x Anna Elizabeth Borman *01.03.1909).
Children of Pieter and Stella: 1. Johan Matthys, *04.06.1962 x Marinda Volschenk *05.06.1964. Descendants: Mindy *23.04,1987 and Ruhan *10.11.1993.
2. 2. 2. André Norman *19.12.1963. (Unmarried).
3. 3. 3. Lizette *15.11.1970. Died11.07.2003. (Unmarried).
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Matthys Johan de Jager *21.07.1931, died Kempton Park 29.08.2001).
(General: Matthys (Thysie) *1931 and his brother, Petrus Jacobus (Pieter) *21.11.1935, had built small aircraft since childhood, suspending these in their bedroom. Thysie, as he was called, became an aircraft mechanic and worked at the Eros Airport in Windhoek on Dakotas and Skymasters from about 1956. He became the very first Boeing 707 technician of South African Airways at Jan Smuts Airport in Johannesburg. His career frequently took him to Brazzaville, Congo. From1967 to 1972 he worked in Frankfurt and brought a BMW car and an Alsation dog back to South Africa. Matthys (Thysie) worked at Jan Smuts Airport on his return. He lived in Kempton Park until his death on 29.08.2001.)
Wives: 1. Ella Johanna (Joyce) van der Westhuizen (22.04.1936 - 26.07.1976).
2. Remarried on 05.11.1976 Johanna (Hannie) Andeweg *07.07.1936. Hannie originally came from the Netherlands. Thys en Hannie had no children from this marriage.
Children 1st marriage: 1. Matthys Johan *26.01.1956, in Windhoek, former South
West Africa.
2. Maria Catharina *21.12.1957 x Johannes Petrus van Wyk *07.01.1950.
Descendants: (a) Monica *20.04.1980.
(b) (b) (b) Roelof Daniel *30.07.1982.
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Matthys Johan de Jager * 26.01.1956 x Mariana Maritz *12.04.1956. Daughter of Gerrit Joachim Maritz and Maria Magdalena van Tonder.
(Matthys Johan *1956 followed in the footsteps of his father Matthys Johan *1931 and the latter’s brother, Petrus (Pieter) Jacobus *1935, and also became an aircraft technician for the South African Airways. He began his career at the former Jan Smuts Airport, Johannesburg, and in 2001 accepted a transfer to Cape Town International Airport.)
Children: 1. Corné * 18.03.1985.
2. 2. 2. Matthys Johan de Jager * 11.02.1990.
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Matthys Johan de Jager * 11.02.1990 x …… ??? ……..
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ABBREVIATED GENEALOGICAL REGISTER
Pieter Christiaan *ca 1671 x Hermina Karels(e) [* ca 1675?]
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Andries Pieter ~1695 x Elizabeth Potgieter ~1709
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Frederik de Jager ~1740 x Maria Strydom ~1752
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Matthys Gottlieb *1791 x Antoinette Elizabeth Weber ~1798
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Petrus Jacobus *1841 x Anna Margaretha Aspeling *1838
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Matthys Johan *1872 x Martha Maria van Niekerk *1873
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Matthys Johan *1904 x Elizabeth Catharina Engelbrecht *1906
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Matthys Johan *1931 x Ella Johanna van der Westhuizen *1936
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Matthys Johan *1956 x Mariana Maritz *1956
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Matthys Johan *1990 x …….???…….
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(This extensive De Jager Genealogical Register was compiled between December 2002 and March 2003 by Alwyn Petrus Smit, *05.06.1948 of 12 Viljoen Street, Bredasdorp. (Tel. 028 4251928). I thank my mother, Emmerentia van Rensburg, Hatfield, Pretoria -- and Petrus (Piet) Jacobus de Jager (descendant of Christiaan de Jager ~18.01.1741). Piet, a farmer, researcher and author, hails from Ottosdal. Adress: pdeja@lantic.net I also thank my wife, Catharina Maria (Marina) and all the enthusiastic families de Jager, as well as relatives by marriage, who eagerly supplied me with information. A word of thanks to Professor O.J.O. Ferreira for providing missing information. It is my wish that this work will be continued by the family in future and be upated as time goes by. Also refer to my Uitgebreide Smit-stamregister, compiled in 2003, and read more about my family de Jager, and other de Jagers in my “Gedenkboek van M.J. de Jager (1872 - 1939) - Boerekryger, Staatsartilleris en Militêr.” Pretoria: Protea Boekhuis, 2000.